Hello SAPL Family! It’s been a while since our last post, but I would like to announce one of Vannie’s last posts before she takes an extended leave from guest writing here at SAPL. Her submissions have been great for the Asian Community in that they’ve urged us to think deeper about our lives as [...]
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Asian Flush (”Blame it on the Ah-Ah-Ah-Alcohol”)
Posted March 12th, 2010 by Peter · 1 Comment
Tags: Activities · Culture · Featured Topic · Food & Beverage · Habits · Open Dialogue · People · Relationships · Social
Happy Lunar New Years 2010!
Posted February 13th, 2010 by Peter · 3 Comments
Happy Lunar New Years 2010, the 4707th one in recorded history!
It’s about that time again! This years’ Lunar New Years festivities will wrap up on the 15th of February, which means the largest celebrations known to Asian people (with Han-Chinese connection) will be going on as well. Join us today on SAPL as we share [...]
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Featured Topic: Double Names
Posted January 23rd, 2010 by Peter · 8 Comments
This week’s post is a very thought provoking dissemination of common Asian naming conventions by none other than guest writer Vannie Sung! Hopefully, we as a SAPL community can help shed some light on this topic. Take it away, Vannie!
Vannie says: I’d like to re-iterate the question that Shakespeare’s Juliet asked Romeo: “What’s in a [...]
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Open Topic: Common Asian Stereotypes
Posted November 18th, 2009 by Peter · 8 Comments
Here is a submission by Vannie Sung about common asian stereotypes.
We’ve heard stereotypes about Asians:Â Bollywood, Rice, Short, Study. No speak English. But what about the more specific ones?
Here are the newest ones I’ve heard so far:
Chinese: Eat dog. (We don’t just eat dog. In fact, I had rabbit stew and fried stingray the other day. [...]
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